Drone Deliveries

Drone Deliveries

     Companies like Amazon, Walmart, and Google are all experimenting with drones to deliver items. They are restricted because of the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has a rule that requires them to ask for approval before each test flight. In March, a drone company called Flirtey completed the first government-sanctioned autonomous (self controlled) drone delivery in a U.S. urban area. The drone was delivering emergency supplies to an empty house in Hawthorne, Nev. using a GPS.

     Yesterday in Japan, the Japanese government drone maker Autonomous Control System Laboratory (ACSL) began testing drone deliveries for homes. Japan doesn't allow drones to be flown in largely populated areas, but there government has allowed for drone delivery tests to happen in Chiba. One of the tests included having a drone go from the top of a shopping center to a park carrying a bottle of wine in a basket. The city of Chiba wants drone delivery to be ready by 2020, for the Summer Olympics.